[Q] Address Book Car Sync Question - Captivate General

Quick and somewhat stupid question. When I had an Iphone, the address book would sync with my BMW IDrive system and basically copy the phone address book to the internal system (which my captivate currently does as well). The issue I'm having is the Iphone contact information sent to the IDrive system would display like this:
Mike (Home)
Mike (Work)
The Captivate syncing with the car does this:
Mike/H
Mike/W
It was much easier to say Dial Mike Home. Much harder to say Dial Mike slash H.
Any way to fix this?

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Another fantastic 'improvement' to WM6

OK so WM3 you could do a 'select all' in the contacts list by dragging the stylus before doing a bluetooth beam to send them all to another device.
WM6 you have to do them one at a time. Not only that but it has to do a bluetooth search to locate the other device each time which takes about 20 seconds.
Jeez looks like I'm in for a fun few hours.
Thanks WM guys
You will also notice that it was easy to add multiple contacts in SMS To field. Not so in WM6. Am I right?
Regards,
Carty..
Thats why....
Its always better to copy them to sim card! If you have one...that is. It makes things a lot easier!
It seems that in WM6 certain bluetooth headsets cannot be used. I personally experienced when upgraded my HTC3350 to a WM6 ROM and now my bluetooth headset is not working.
One phone is 3G (with 3G sim) the other is not.
Also sim contacts lose addresses and split contacts into 2 if there are 2 numbers on one contact.
Can't use Outlook on my PC as a transfer mechanism as it has a different contact list.
Jeez when are they going to come up with a simple XML or CSV export format for WM contact lists export/import.
Folk have been asking this for years!!!!!!!!!

[Thought] Have more info for incoming call

Hello,
Thank you to all amazing developers for the superb ROMs.
Background: I maintain my master contacts in Microsoft Outlook (which I now periodically sync with Gmail contacts). I had a windows based HTC P3450 phone earlier which could directly sync with Outlook. When using that phone, an incoming call used to give much more info about the contact in addition to name and phone number such as company name, title etc.
Not that I am a professional nerd with thousands of contacts, but I particularly found this feature very useful in that phone because I could tag my in-laws names with their cities because I could hardly ever remember their names.
All in all, when a call used to come from my aunt in law, it looked something like this
Mrs X Y Z
+1 123-123-1234
Location1, Honey's 2nd aunt
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I havent tried all of the amazing ROMs here but was wondering how difficult it is for our magicians to either customize the incoming call screen or just hard code additional info fields. Just a food for thought.
P.S. : I'm currently running Cognition 5 v2

[Q] Noob Coming over from Blackbery needs Help

Hello:
On my old Blackberry 9700 each contact has a separate ringtone for the phone number and their email address.
Is it possible to have separate ringtones for someone's phone an email address on the Skyrocket without putting a separate entry in the contact for each one?
If there is a way can someone enlighten this noob?
Thanks.
Spring
Download the app on the market called ringdroid its free. It will also allow u to use any music you have downloaded as a ringtone. And lets u choose how long the ringtone is, and what parts of songs u want to use
Thanks silver03wrx.
Ringdroid sounds like a ringtone making app.
I have the ringtones on the sd card. I just don't see a way to use separate tones for a single contacts phone number and a different tone for their email address without entering a separate contact for the phone number and another for the email address in my contacts. A lost of extra work.
I like to know when someone is calling me or emailing me. I can then choose to answer right away or not.
Spring
Ringdroid does allow you to assign a ringtone to a specific contact look at the attached picture
Yeah i dont think that allows you to seperate the email sound for the same contact though
Hi Silver:
I don't think it does either because I have CNN updates in the contacts with an email address along with a certain ringtone assigned to it & every time an update comes over it plays the default email tone.
This is a bummer because I like to know when family emails me since we're so far apart. Had each one of the siblings on a different tone so I knew right away who it was.
I guess blackberry will always have everyone beat when it comes to handling emails with ringtones.
Thanks for trying Silver.
Spring.
Try WhoIsIt in the market place. I think it might do what you want.
Hello:
Whoisit didn't get very good reviews.
I also found Enhanced SMS & Caller ID, and Ringo Pro out there that might bridge the gap. Gonna do more research tomorrow morning.
Thanks all.
Spring
I understand your frustration, I am also a former 9700 user. The thing I miss most is the centralized Sound Profiles, it's hard / impossible afaik to have profiles setup which will in turn change the alerts and notifications for all installed apps collectively.
Hi Promise:
I'm using Ringo Pro right now. It will ring a tone for phone calls & msgs.
Haven't found anything safe that will do different tones per contact for all three yet.
Will keep looking.
Spring

[Q] Random "text to talk"

Standard Sensation, unrooted. I am experiencing random "text to talk" occurrences where, on opening a web page, my Sensation will blurt out the web address. Highly embarrassing in a work environment !
Now on my motorbike, I used DriveSafe.ly until ICS broke it, so I was looking for a replacement and downloaded SMS Reader which didn't do what I wanted and freaked me out when it started announcing all my incoming phone calls to the whole office - so I de-installed that, right quick.
So my question is this; I believe that there is an in-built speech engine within Android, but where are the controls for it. Or is there a setting I am over-looking?
Cheers
MrSums

[Q] Life after iPhone

I am utterly tired of my iPhone. It's very hard to have a normal conversation on it, because of a very week/unstable signal.
However, I'm very fond of iCloud and the synchronization with my iCal, contacts and notes in my two Apple computers.
So my question is this:
Which - if any - phone should I buy to get the best possible signal for my phone calls and still be able to synchronize with iCal and my contacts?
Thank you for your help
Thomas
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I am utterly tired of my iPhone. It's very hard to have a normal conversation on it, because of a very week/unstable signal.
However, I'm very fond of iCloud and the synchronization with my iCal, contacts and notes in my two Apple computers.
So my question is this:
Which - if any - phone should I buy to get the best possible signal for my phone calls and still be able to synchronize with iCal and my contacts?
Thank you for your help
Thomas
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android has many cloud services you would have to just have to do some research on which is the best for you. some come with 2 years free, i think samsung does that with someone. not sure about any that would work with icloud

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